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My Art Journey - 7, 8, 9, and 10 of 40

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I've had an on and off relationship with art over my lifetime. Of course when you are little, you create art without a care in the world and enjoy the process of creating all the wonderful things in your mind. However, over time that careless creativity came to a grinding halt as I put judgment on my work and compared it to those around me. I grew up in a family of extremely talented artists and, being the youngest in the family, I felt like I was never as good as them, so I stopped doing art and settled for being the "musical one".  In high school, I discovered the joy of colored pencils and my art world opened back up a little. I did a few drawings here and there for people I loved and enjoyed the process of bringing joy and delight through visual art. But soon a busy life with marriage and then kids started and I had little time or energy to do any sort of art. I got my colored pencils back out when David was about two and drew this butterfly below for a friend af...
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My good friend from high school posted a little interview with her middle child and it was so cute.  I've done this before with my kids, recording them on tape so we can remember their voices.  But I thought it would be fun to do this here for you to enjoy.  I took the questions directly from the previously mentioned blog.  So we'll start with youngest first.  I'll post the others in coming days.  Enjoy the thoughts of Abby! Why do you think that we named you Abby? because you thought that it was a nice name How many brothers and sisters would you like to have if you could choose? a billion What is your favorite color? pink and purple What is God like? a huge person who makes people and creates things If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? to see Grandma Kay and Grandpa Tom at their new house or go to Indiana What do you want to be when you get bigger? a grown up What's your favorite thing to play? Citadel...
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